Ahmed Jibril

Ahmed Jibril (1938-) was the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC).

Biography
Ahmed Jibril was born in 1938 in the village of Yazur, near Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine to a Sunni Muslim family. He was raised in Syria and rose to the rank of Captain in the Syrian Army, but in 1958 he was expelled due to being a communist. In 1967, Jibril and George Habash co-founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) militant group, but in 1968 he split from the PFLP due to arguments over the communist ideology and formed the pro-Syria Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command. His son Jihad Ahmed Jibril served as the group's military leader until he was killed in a car bombing on 20 May 2002. Ahmed Jibril helped Syria during the Syrian Civil War, and the PFLP-GC was berated for being closer to the far-right militant groups than the left, and the Palestinian National Council considered expelling him.